Gil Tayar

My flow as a developer is like Matisse's: "When working, [...] there is a constant back and forth until the work and I are in harmony. Like a writer, I am always revising, going back and making new discoveries". Programming is a craft.

ECMAScript Euphoria! 🎉 We don't always post when a single proposal advances, but when we do, it's Temporal -> Stage 4. Just days shy of 9 years from Stage 1, a herculean effort on the part of many champions, delegates, invited experts, and contributors, past and present. Thank you all! 🙌

Hmm... why doesn't `--erasableSyntaxOnly` in @typescriptlang.org not show an error on decorators? 🤔 It passes typechecking with this flag, but Node.js doesn't run it ("invalid token" error)

🚨 NEW: The DOJ wants to break up Chrome from Google — the consequences could be catastrophic for the web. 📖 Read our article: Break Google's search monopoly without breaking the web. 👇Link: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/break-g... /1

If a package is used only in `import type`, should that package be in `dependencies` or `devDependencies`. It feels wrong for it to be in `dependencies` because the JS runtime doesn't see it, but it MUST be in `dependencies` because `.d.ts` files generated by the package refer to it. 😢

This is the template, Democrats.

Node 20 is getting all the require(esm) goodies unflagged now 👀 github.com/nodejs/node/...

i cant believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI

@gil.tayar.org on stage in the JavaScript IL meetup!

Short survey: What languages do you use to compile to #WebAssembly? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... I’ll publish the results on January 1 as a blog post here: 2ality.com 🦋 Reposts appreciated!

Interesting how the browser is now a valid place to run frontend tooling, thanks to tools like @stackblitz.com and @codesandbox.io

עוד לא מצאתי כאן את #פידטק, אבל אנסה בכל זאת: נפתח ה cfp של ריאקט נקסט גם השנה לכנס יהיה מסלול ריאקט ומסלול js כללי, ואני ממש ממליצה להגיש. כנס שממש כיף לדבר בו ונותן הרבה תמיכה למי שצריך. דברו איתי בפרטי אם יש לכם שאלות / התייעצויות. הגשות כאן: sessionize.com/reactnext-20... @barzik.bsky.social

I feel seen

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Look at this post - it has a *link* in it! How is that possible? Digging a bit, it seems that the 🦋 app has support for rich text (docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...), so I'm guessing that while the 🦋 client doesn't support writing it, the Ouranos client below does, and the 🦋 client shows it.

@nx.dev - why oh why does remote caching only work in CI, and I have to `export CI=1` to make it work locally? This feels _very_ opinionated, from a tool that in general is not. A CLI argument or `nx.json` option would have been better, as I would really love to use remote caching on dev machines.

"I don’t think the goal is really to provide a safety net for everyone — I think it’s actually to speed us up, so we can see more patients, reduce visits down from 15 minutes to 12 minutes to 10. Efficiency, again." www.codastory.com/stayonthesto...

Isn't it funny how many people dogged on component fetching because it created waterfalls that are now hailing RSCs because they enable... component fetching, albeit on the server. It removes one side of a round trip for a fetch, but a waterfall is a waterfall and you know what they say...

And they never tell you what it *really* does.

It's not a coincidence that the icon for LLM actions is something like ✨. Because LLMs feel like magic. And just like magic in fantasy and fairy tales, LLMs can totally backfire on you!

So, How many occurrences of React.Dispatch<React.SetStateAction in your codebase? matanbobi.dev/posts/stop-p...

TIL: A more flexible alternative to `Array(4).fill(1)`.

OMG! Google Slides can now show speaker notes in a separate window ***automatically***! (Without me needing to move windows from screen to screen in an awkward way at the start of the presentation) Too bad I got so used to not having speaker notes, that I don't need them anymore. 😁

Is there a way in 🦋 to get notified when somebody posts/skeets? Twitter has that functionality, which I found useful.

This Monday at 12:30 ET on the JavaScript Jabber podcast NodeJS core contributors @nodeland.dev @jasnell.me @mhdawson.bsky.social join as for part 2 of the conversation about their excellent article "The Nine Node Pillars: 9 Principles for Doing Node.js Right" www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY-f...

Isn't it infuriaritingly confusing, that if you want to have a number `num` be *at most* 10, then you have to write const finalNum = Math.min(num, 10) My intuition is shouting at me "Math.max! Math.max!", and I have to shut it up and accept that "at most" mean "Math.min". 🤷‍♂️

In a nice turn of events, a week after I learned about this API I found a use for it at work. Thank you @ambarvm.bsky.social for this piece of info. 🙏 (and did I lose `p-mutex`? Nope - I used it to fake this API when running Vitest tests 😁)

Is this the first time an open source app climbed to the #1 spot? 🤔

We are the number one app in the United States. I repeat. We are the number one app in the United States.

Doesn't work for me. When I try I find myself glossing over the details. What *does* work for me is writing a detailed description of the pr that guides the reviewer. And that's where I find my bugs! By explaining it to someone else. And the reviewer gets a bonus review guide that really helps.

The best thing about this release - our community "alpha testers" team caught a few nasty bugs just before we were about to release it a week ago... We then fixed them and now it's finally ready. God I love the @qwik.dev community! 🙌😍

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"Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere" This quote by Roland Barthes is one of my favorite. And it's embedded in a longer text about rereading which deserves a reading (and rereading!): www.goodreads.com/quotes/74493...